Getting a Handle On It

There has been a lot of my mind lately, but this one topic has been running through my head the past 24 hours. Toilet handles. I’m not sure why, but all of the three toilets in our house flush successfully about five out of six times. It seems like if you flush anything other than a cup of water, the toilet will clog. I have theories about why this is, but I have only an elementary knowledge of plumbing, so my theory is probably not correct. A week or so ago, one of the little girls got up at night to use the bathroom, flushed the toilet, and went to bed. There two things working against us that night. One, the toilet was clogged. Two, the toilet handle was stuck down. Whichever little girl it was went back to bed and didn’t notice the toilet was clogged. It slowly overflowed and there was some flooding in the basement. Carpet was destroyed, etc., etc. Which brings me to the toilet handle. It was already past time to replace the toilet handle in our house because all three of the toilets have their handles on kind of a slant, so it’s hard to get a toilet handle that doesn’t scrape or catch on the edge of the tank.

So, we came across the best invention in the history of man^{[citation needed]}. I present to you the Korky 6054BP StrongARM Tank Lever Universal Fit.

The part of the handle that you touch is metal. The rest of it is strong plastic and is engineered in a way that fits almost every toilet tank humans in North America can conceive of. It’s also spring loaded. Spring loaded! It springs back into its default spot after you use it. Also, It was very easy, nay, a joy to install these handles.
You might be thinking, ‘Why are you talking about toilet handles?’ To which I would mentally counter, ‘Why are you NOT talking about toilet handles?’ How much clean water do we waste by having a handle that’s stuck down? Google Gemini says that a running toilet wastes between 30 and 250 gallons of water (a big margin) per day. Do I trust Google Gemini? I do not. But if was fast, and that’s a lot of water.
In closing, citizens, I praise the people who took time to invent such a quality product that solves such a common problem. I am not sponsored by them–partially because I am the only one reading this blog.